Clothes-frame



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ROBERT RAMSEY, OE NEW WILMINGTON, PENNSYLVANIA.

CLOTHES-FRAME.

Speccation of Letters Patent No. 23,607, dated April 12, 1859.

To all whom it may concer/n.:

Be it known that I, ROBERT RAMsnY, of the township of New lVilmington, county of Lawrence, and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and Improved Clothes- Horse; and I do hereby declare that the tollowing is a full and exact description thereof.

The nature of my invention is in constructing an adjustable clothes-horse on a single column; with arms as shown at Figure 1 in the drawings, which is a perspective view of my clothes-horse partly closed.

To enable others skilled in this kind of mechanism to make and use my invention I will proceed to describe its construction and operation.

I construct an octagon columndsay six ilieet long--otl four inch scantling, I divide it into sections numbered 1, 2, 3, et and Number 1 is six inches in length; the rest are five inches each. Those sections marked a, are turned in order to make it lighter, and suit the fancy.

Fig. 2 is a top view of the plinth, or :toot frame on which the colmn stands. I connect them with a turned tenon, on the end of the cohunu. (It may be left to rotate; but, casters in the feet are better.) I then put in a turned, or scroll foot, as shown at Fig. 1. A cheap article may be made by inserting tour turned feet in the column.

Fig. 3, in the center of Fig. Q, is an end view of the column. I have numbered the squares ot' Fig. 3 for convenience in hanging the arms.

Fig. 4, represents the arm; otl which I use eight. More or less may be used. This arm ist'our-and-a-half feet long, two and a half inches wide in the center; one inch at the ends; and three-fourths ot an inch thick. I hang this arm on a screw, or pivot, in the center at C. B, is a hole for the bolt, or pin to catch and hold the arm when raised up square on the column. This hole is bored in the back side, two-thirds through the arm; then turn the arm the other side to you; move your bit to the right, so as to cover two-thirds of the back hole, with the bit; then bore until your bit cuts into the back hole, leaving one-third of the back hole covered. This is to stop the spring bolt, when it has caught the arm, and to prevent it from falling out. The black spot at B shows the end of the bolt, the opening made by the last hole gives an opportunity to push back the bolt, and let the arm down. This hole should be about haltl an inch from the lower edge of the arm and bored with a the column.

three-fourth inch bit. The hole C Should admit an inch and a halt screw, No. 12. (A screw with a broad head; square shoulder on the under side would be best.) This hole should be half an inch from the upper edge. These holes must be so arranged as to suit the square on the column; and that about one-halt of the bolt will be covered with the arm, when it is down, so as to prevent it from falling out.

Fig. 5 is a side view of the bolt, or pin, with a spiral spring; this bolt should be three-fourths of an inch in diameter at. the large end; t-he other end or spindle about half an inch, or to suitthe spring I make the large end about an inch long; the whole length of bolt about two-and-a-half inches.

Figs. G and 7 are eyelets or washers made of some metallic or other durable substance. The small washer is to be inserted around the screw hole on the front side of the arm; the large washer around the bolt-hole on the back side of the arm. I hang two arms on each section, beginning with Number 2. Now place arm No. 1 on section Q of the column with the upper edge to the center of the section on square No. 1, as shown at Fig. 3. Bore the hole for the spring-bolt, close to the right angle on the column-the screw or pivot hole, close to the left angle, as shown at D, Fig. 1. Arm No. 2 must be placed on square 3, with the lower edge over arm 1 so as not to interfere; then hang as in the case of No. 1. These arms will fall to the right when let down. Arm No. 3 is hung on section 3, square 6. Arm No. 4 is hung on square 4e. (The bottom of the bolt hole, in the column, should be bored with a bit to suit the small end of the bolt.) The holes in arms 3 and -Lt must be reverse, as at E, from those in arms 1 and 2, for they (arms 3 and 4) must fall to the left hand, from your position when screwing them on Arm No. 5 is hung on square 5, arm 6 on square 7, arm 7 on square 2, and arm 8 on square 8. Arms 5 and G must fall to the right hand; 7 and S to the left hand.

That I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is- The combination and arrangement of the standard and the arms, with the bolts washers and springs substantially as and Jfor the purpose specified.

, ROBERT RAMSEY.

Witnesses JOHN M. MoRDooK, J. W. FORBES. 

